Al-Bukhārī likewise related—through an unnamed intermediary—from him.
Abū Dāwūd declared him reliable, although he did err in some narrations (1).
Al-Nasāʾī and others said: “There is no harm in him” (2).
I add: he was counted among the eminent specialists in ḥadith.
Hanbal said: “He passed away on the Day of Sacrifice in the year 217 AH” (3).
I further note: In that same year died Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl (4), Mūsā ibn Dāwūd al-Ḍabbī (5), Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl al-ʿAṭṭār the devotee, ʿAmr ibn Masʿadah, the confidential secretary of al-Maʾmūn (6), and Ismāʿīl ibn Maslamah al-Qaʿnabī (7).
57 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam ibn Aʿyan ibn Layth al-Miṣrī * (S)
The Imām, jurist, and mufti of the Egyptian domains, Abū Muḥammad al-Miṣrī, the Mālikī, a close disciple of Mālik.
It is said that he was among the freedmen of ʿUthmān, may Allah be pleased with him (8).